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1995-10-24 - Re: Does your software?

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From: Jon Mittelhauser <jonm@netscape.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <308D0DA4.7ED@netscape.com>
Reply To: <199510241710.NAA18747@jafar.sware.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-24 23:01:55 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 16:01:55 PDT

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From: Jon Mittelhauser <jonm@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 16:01:55 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Does your software?
In-Reply-To: <199510241710.NAA18747@jafar.sware.com>
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Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:

> Yet it services more than one request per minute, 24 hours, 7 days, and
> has done so without denial of services, corruption, or leakage since its
> first implementation.  It's so small it can be verified, it's faster
> than the retail brand, and it doesn't have all the holes we keep finding
> in tho other servers.  Different strokes for different folks.

I really tried to resist but....

1 request a minute!!!!  That's a whopping 1440 a day!  Try 20+ a second or
over a million a day which is the current rough load which most of our
servers on our site handle...(our peak day last week was 17 million hits).

I don't disagree that there is value in producing a trivial server which
can be guaranteed to have zero bugs (since it is so small).  It, however,
should be treated as an intellectual excercise.  Comparing it to a production-level
retail server is simply meaningless..they have different goals (as your last
post emphasized)...

-Jon

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